The last of our pre European Tingle Forest is to be firebombed next summer 2011/2012.
A huge 1360 ha of the Tingle Forest straddling the Frankland River (block 407) within the Walpole Nornalup National Park is about to be bombed using choppers.
This is the last large example of long unburnt OPEN FLOOR Tingle Forest left in the world, solely due to it being without fire for 80 years, allowing the understory to collapse and decompose creating this Park Land Forest with declining litter or fuel levels.
Firing this wilderness and its inhabitants including a rare Quokka colony, will simply propagate millions of understory seeds and within 4 or 5 years turn this world class Valley of Giants into an impenetrable thicket of Wattle and Hazel understory with 30% of the giant 1000 year old Tingles being severely damaged or brought to the ground. The forest will take between 50 and 70 years to regain its present condition. What is the logic of this management plan?
